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  1. the problem is on Are IT Certifications Meaningless? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Now days, the good jobs go to some guy with 12 years experience on his resume and a couple degrees, and everything else goes to some shop in another country. I'm not actually against outsourcing in all regards, but those of us still in school, or just getting out, are left out of the loop, even though we are often better coders than the others.

    mastergoon@gmail.com

  2. USB pen distros on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Once BIOS supports booting from them, USB pen distros will be really nice. Read and write, and now a whole 5 gig on something easier to transport than a CD.

  3. what the kid wants on Parenting and a Career in Coding? · · Score: 1

    Just make sure you are programming cool stuff, like games, and your kid will be happy to have the betas. :)

  4. well.. on Your Data and Cyber Business After You're Gone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't really care enough about what happens to my e-mail after I die to bother with all that crap. I don't really think anybody really is going to need my encrypted data after I died, or they would have had a key while I was alive.

  5. Re:Best Wey on LA to Oregon at Mach 9 · · Score: 2, Funny
    This has to be the absolutlu best wey to get slashdoted. Hasnt Bittorrent teched us anything?

    It ain't done teached me nothin

  6. and down we gooo on LA to Oregon at Mach 9 · · Score: 1
    Best slashdot effect ever :)

    I hit the link before first comment, got on the download, 100K/s and all the sudden whoosh it starts dropping.

  7. er on Usenix President - Linux Needs Better Paper Trail · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which continent is Usenix on? I've never even heard of that country.

  8. who cares on Samsung Announces Largest-Ever OLED Display · · Score: -1, Troll
    No matter how nice it looks, I still couldn't bear to use a monitor under 19".

    Tell me when they add 2 more inches (maybe they should talk to spammers).

  9. Great F/OSS on Blender 2.33 Re-enables Game Engine · · Score: 5, Informative
    Blender has got to be right up there among the best of the F/OSS software. It may not have all the features of 3d studio max, but for beginner and intermediate modellers, or people with no artistic talent, it kicks ass!

    The controls are a bit hard to learn, though the interface has been getting better recently. In the end, once you read through the tutorials and learn all the keyboard commands you will find them to be great.

  10. Re:Excellent on OpenBSD 3.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Probably not so much that it matters...but all my boxes are SMP, so why not take advantage of it when you can :)

  11. Excellent on OpenBSD 3.5 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I use Linux on almost all my systems, but nothing can cut the security I get using OpenBSD on my firewalls and routers. I can't wait for SMP support to be working.

  12. Re:nonsense on Gentoo Linux Musings · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd say the opposite, a lot of enterprise users want to squeeze out every last drop of performance they can get.

  13. misread on DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease · · Score: 0, Troll

    Somehow I read this as DNA Computer Defects [...]

  14. Calm down... on Big Brother Will Be Watching You In Florida · · Score: 1
    Really, why is it such a big deal for them to take pictures of everyones license plates as they drive through? It's not like they are putting a camera in your home and making sure your wife's headlights aren't out.

    People get so worked up over a bunch of cameras...but theses cameras are in public places, people are supposed to be able to see you there!

  15. Re:WTF? on MP3.com Hastily Re-launches -- But Will It Fly? · · Score: 5, Informative
    Yeah looks fine in Firefox. One thing I was actually impressed with was their use of CSS. In Firefox you can switch between the stylesheets, they offer multiple text sizes, and a layout stripped of most graphics. The button to switch them in firefox is in the bottom left corner.

    The color scheme may not be great, but the use of CSS is above average (though that is no use at all often).

  16. w00t on MP3.com Hastily Re-launches -- But Will It Fly? · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least theres even more advertisements than last time, something to look at while I download right?

  17. Re:meh on Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005 · · Score: 0, Interesting

    just because i get flamed doesnt mean im flamebait morons :)

  18. Re:Debian is fading into irrelevence? on Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005 · · Score: 2, Informative
    My company has been using 2.6.x on production servers since January, and there hasnt been a single problem. We have 24 servers running it.

    2.6 is marked stable, because its stable.

  19. meh on Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005 · · Score: 0, Interesting
    On most distros with a packaging system, releases don't affect you much, as you can install newer packages and stay up to date, so who cares when the next iso comes out.

    Maybe im wrong about how things work over on debian, im a gentoo user, bite me.

  20. safety on AT&T Wireless Announces Music ID Service · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now not only will people be talking on their phones in their cars, they will be holding them up to the radio and turning up the volume!

  21. meh on Privacy Complaint Against Google's GMail Service · · Score: 0

    if you are sending something so important you are afraid of google checking it against adwords, use your own server, or encrypt it.

  22. w0000 on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: -1, Troll

    1gb thats a load of lesbian porn!

  23. which 3rd party? on SCO Uses 3rd Parties To Spread Claims In Germany · · Score: -1, Troll

    Heil SCO! Mein Fuhrur!

  24. xml on CSS for the LDP? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you are going to go through all that work to reformat the documents, it seems more reasonable to go to an XML/XSLT system. For documentation projects XML is the way to go, so it can be viewed great in many applications.

    Before you start whining that "it wont work in my browser," remember, there are several solution where the stylesheet is applied server side, and the page can be servered as plain old html.

  25. who needs variety on The Universal Card · · Score: 0

    Excellent, this will make it so much easier for people to track down my details!